Summit Expression Session videos good for technique?

[rikytheripster]

i reckon they would be but want to kniow 4 sure as am shipping to the UK.
also when is ECES 04 coming out?

cheers

[Jack Michaud]

I'm sure you'll see plenty of people ripping great turns, but you will see many different "styles". While learning to carve, you should aspire to ride "perfectly", which almost nobody really does (I don't). After you have achieved a certain level of mastery is when your own particular style really develops. So when you see somebody carving up a storm in a non-instructional video like the SES/ECES dvd, what you see most is somebody's personal style, which they have found works best for only themselves. A video of someone demonstrating only "perfect" technique would be pretty boring.

Learning to carve is like learning to play a musical instrument. It's not too hard to learn the basics and then try to emulate someone else without learning theory. Is it possible to get really good this way? Yes. But only the students who first learn the theory and how to play perfectly - all the scales, chords, modes, etc., and how to play classical and jazz and blues, will then go on to develop their own unique style at a level that can truly be called mastery.

So if you already know what perfect technique looks like and you can identify what is style and what is technique, then the video might be useful. Otherwise, I couldn't recommend it as a "real" learning tool.
-Jack

[rikytheripster]

i see your point and that is confirmed by mant recent posts in which different styles and techniques have been discussed. Liek you said 1st get good at 'perfect' one- like CMC then develop your own expression of your style.

[rikytheripster]

its kind of tough, not only am i in the UKbut being a student( Bath uni) its tricky dodging work and then there is the cash aspect. will prob buy sum videos depending on shipping costs.

[Jack Michaud]

Originally posted by rikytheripster
Like you said 1st get good at 'perfect' one- like CMC then develop your own expression of your style.

heh - not even CMC is worthy of the title "perfect" (nor am I). He's close though.